Letter: There are many reasons for us to love Obamacare

Who, today, would reject their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or Medicare Part D plan? No one. Yet, these plans were met with opposition and hysteria in the 1930s, '60s and '90s. Perhaps they weren't perfect at the beginning, but they were revised and improved for the good of all of us today.

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) passed the House and Senate in 2009. It was signed into law in 2010; upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012. It is law! It is the responsibility of our representatives, including Rep. Jeff Duncan, Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. Tim Scott, to obey the law and serve the best interests of their constituents. Who do they think they are to pick and choose which part of a government they don't feel like funding? What arrogance to close down the government for politics. And, when lives are at stake!

With Obamacare, my 23-year-old nephew with cancer will now get insurance and medical care for the rest of his life - and live. Your neighbor will be able to get a free mammogram to detect early breast cancer. Your diabetic grandchild can never be denied medical care. An unemployed worker, who lost health benefits, can now get his own insurance at a reasonable rate.

Thirty-two of 33 developed nations have universal health care, the United States being the lone exception - until 2010. Starting with Norway in 1912, all 32 countries have recognized that health care should be a right, not a privilege and everyone must participate for low costs.

House Republicans: stop playing politics with our lives! If Obamacare is so bad, why not fund it and watch it fail?? Because it will be good and they will look like the immoral, political fools they are.

Paulette Keffas-Chassin

Seneca

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Letter: There are many reasons for us to love Obamacare

Who, today, would reject their Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid or Medicare Part D plan? No one. Yet, these plans were met with opposition and hysteria in the 1930s, '60s and '90s.